Ian Waites
@ianwaites.bsky.social
Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘The view’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt John Bull Magazine (1955)
50,000. By just one local authority. Imagine.
Municipal Dreams@municipaldreams.bsky.social · 5d ago🚨 New on Substack, my review of Chris Matthews' history of Nottingham's council housing (Photo: Tony Crosland, Environment Secretary , opening Nottingham’s 50,000th council house in The Meadows with Chair of Housing, Cllr Bert Littlewood, 1976) ... municipaldreams.substack.com/p/book-revie...
BBC Radio 3 In Tune Now Playing Thomas Adès & Orchestra of the Swan Arcadiana for string quartet: 6th movement; O Albion
Partial solar eclipse, the morning of Friday 20 March 2015.
Nobody says a thing is splendid. You never say a thing is splendid, or a person is splendid. Do you? Splendor's gone.
PHOTO OF THE DAY. The 6 photos taken by Iain Macmillan for the Abbey Road cover (1969).
Virginia Astley continues to send the best Bandcamp Friday emails
Train landscapes on the far side of the Lincolnshire Wolds.
1777: Young martins, & swallows abound. Swifts still.
SUMMER SALE! Sunshine! Greenery! Freedom! in the pedestrianised postwar English housing estate. My books, The Radburn Idea, vols 1 and 2, for sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com Now only £7 each including postage.
More parchmarks. By the car park at Silbury Hill you can see some of the wall foundations of the house & tea rooms that were beside a petrol station that closed in the mid 1970s. Black & white Wiltshire Museum photos, some interesting memories of the site here www.facebook.com/groups/deviz...
SUMMER SALE! Sunshine! Greenery! Freedom! in the pedestrianised postwar English housing estate. My books, The Radburn Idea, vols 1 and 2, for sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com Now only £7 each including postage.
Four walks in four seasons: south to north, west to east, east to west, north to south. Of time and the Dutch River. 1: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river 2: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere... 3: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/point-zero 4: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/to-scale
Untitled [John Cage, Black Mountain] https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-rauschenberg/untitled-john-cage-black-mountain-1952
!["Untitled [John Cage, Black Mountain]" captures avant-garde composer John Cage sitting inside a car, embodying the spirit of innovation associated with Black Mountain College. Taken by Robert Rauschenberg, this photograph reflects the collaborative and interdisciplinary artistic experiments that define the institution's legacy in American art.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qj25kaytpi2m25wd2sdtorux/bafkreifeudtzs2rqupegqtnbrglfatit5orl5mcl5seu6esane2k5vsb34)
Above us were omen skies with clouds for the telling of tomorrow. Above were the wires carrying The Hum, telling us the electric ley of the land, giving us our directions of march. The media called us a lost generation, but we had found our way. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave, ex-Pylon Person
